Ringbow is a ring you wear on your index finger with a directional pad button that you control with your thumb, adding a new dimension to gaming and making things like navigating your smartphone and tablet easier.

Gaming on phones and tablets has become so popular in recent years it’s surprising no one has thought of this idea sooner. Ringbow is the world’s first touchscreen accessory that acts as a mouse or joystick.

It is designed to make any process more intuitive and efficient because it means your finger can now do much more than just touch. When playing games, it also gets rid of clunky touchscreen D-pads that take up vital screen space while at the same time keeping your fingers from covering the display.

It’s not just good for gaming, Ringbow can be used for remote browsing while reading, correcting misspelled emails, as a remote control for your TV, and to answer the phone while you’re driving. The ring supports any Bluetooth-enabled device so the possibilities of what you could use it for are varied and will surely expand if it gets put into production. It also works on Android and iOS (very soon). Impressively, it has a battery that will last at least 5 hours worth of game time too.

For a pledge of $45 you get a Ringbow, a micro USB cable to charge it with, and a game package which includes games made specially to support the device. For $55 a developers kit is included with 24 hour assistance from their technical team team.

The creators of Ringbow, Saar Shai and Efrat Barit, plan to work with major games developers to take the device further. So far the Kickstarter has 821 backers who have raised $45,789 of the $100,000 goal. With 27 days to go, it’s very likely that this project will get funded and I won’t be surprised if we see Ringbow on sale in the near future.

Speak Your Mind

It actually seems like it’s terribly awkward. i mean it’s quick and easy to use the touch screen, while driving you can more quickly tap your phone to change songs or call someone. The whole point of a touch screen would be shared between this obviously clunky and hard to press and strange positioned selector. and presentations are normally done remotely from all devices with other bluetooth remotes and computers. As for gaming that really only could apply to a casual standing point where an actual controller stick for shooters(and other third person games) to keep your fingers off an already too small screen would improve the experience. this will also not burden app dev’s with more programming and device support than they already have to do

braithwa842

I want one. I would wear it in the lounge room when watching movies on my multimedia machine. Wake me up as soon as it is supported under Linux.